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✍️ “I met Daniel Buren in 1971, when I started working for Flash Art in Milan with Giancarlo Politi. Opening my gallery (BANCO) in 1973, I consider Daniel indispensable. I go to Paris to talk to him, to convince him, but I'm just a kid opening a gallery in a hurry, no precise programme even if he has precise ideas. I ask him about an exhibition. He hesitates. In fact, Daniel replies: “Good luck, do what you want, send me your invitations. In three years time, I’Il tell you yes or no. But be careful, I want to know who is the artist who exhibits before me and after me. I don't want to exhibit between two idiots.” Then the waiting began. Three years - an eternity. But after only one year, Daniel called: I had passed the exam! In fact, the first season wasn't great and I must say Daniel was very generous with me. Who knows? Sometimes I think he's shy/soft/ aggressive, and needs to defend himself, to mark his territory, so he dictates specific rules that have to be scrupulously respected. If you stick to the rules, if you join the family, you are admitted to the privileged table where the players are. What I have realised, now that we are nearing the end of the journey, is that we have probably been playing the great game of life. The first exhibition in 1974 - its title, Gotico, came from the shape of the arches of the gallery ceiling -was followed, slowly but surely, by many others. The relationship between the gallerist and the artist grew stronger every day. The two are now friends and have nothing to prove to anyone. They don't need to present exhibitions for us to to sense their mutual understanding. It seems to me the time has come for Daniel and Massimo to do something without anyone knowing, just for the fun of it. What do you think, Daniel?” - Extract by Child’s Play by MASSIMO MININI - from Criss Cross Daniel Buren. 📸Buren, first exhibition view at Banco in 1974 - Renato Corsini #danielburen #massimominini ##50thGalleriaMassimoMinini #buren #galleriamassimominini #arthistory #artmemories #bresciarte